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The youth unemployment rate in the US is around 10 percent. I'd say a two and a half times difference is pretty significant. Would you rather move to San Francisco or Paris straigh…

>and the owners (or share holders) would not be multi-billionaires, only single-digit millionaires at most Are you proposing a >99% tax rate on capital or corporate income?

Indecency isn't a crime in the US, so you couldn't get extradited for it. If you had committed a crime in Saudi Arabia that is also illegal in the US and the US courts have ruled t…

. . . my friends didn't want to switch, so instead I simply stopped using Facebook and started using Telegram/email/SMS/IRC/any of a dozen other communication methods to talk with …

> So, before capitalism, people didn't build widgets? Sure they did, at sustenance level. Or do you think that the noncapitalist economy of preindustrial Europe could produce enoug…

I guess I don't see the distinction. If I see your license plate at the supermarket and post online that "license plate AAAAAA was seen at Whole Foods on December 6th", how is that…

Is that really what you got from the article? I feel like the author makes a pretty valid point: everyone pattern-matches people at first impression. If you decide to climb on a to…

One paragraph later, they also propose that the disparity is likely because black families have less accumulated household wealth and so are more likely to end up in delinquency th…

I really recommend you read about the Effective Altruism movement if you want a detailed response to your questions. In response to your question, you are totally right! Anything y…

Please, tell Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe about how the Russian thread is an invention of the western media. I'm sure the Russian military support in the Donbass is also …

So you're suggesting that being poor is a genetic condition (and one that apparently should be perpetuated)? Because that sounds even more dehumanizing than suggesting that the poo…

There are many, many places on earth where you can go and live precisely the lifestyle that the vast majority lived before the Industrial Age. Assuming you live in the US, there ar…